This is a guest post by Carolyn Pedwell, Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Newcastle University and AHRC Visiting Scholar at The Centre for the History of Emotions, Queen Mary, University of London. With the rise of the … Continue reading
This year, I’ve started researching ecstatic experience, from a personal and an academic perspective. One of the highlights of my research has been encountering the work of Ann Taves, a religious studies academic at the University of California, Santa Barbara, … Continue reading
Dr Jem Bloomfield is an academic, playwright and critic, with particular expertise in early modern theatre. His PhD was on the production history of John Webster’s Duchess of Malfi. He is the author of the quiteirregular blog. Here Jem discusses the … Continue reading
I’ve a long article in Aeon magazine this week, looking at Improving Access for Psychological Therapy (IAPT), which is the first ever provision of talking therapy on a mass scale by a government. Before IAPT, the NHS spent just 3% … Continue reading
Pain is a sensation – and a topic – that has recently attracted much attention among historians, particularly those working in the field of the history of emotions. This post interrogates perceptions of mental pain that link this feeling to … Continue reading
Professor Yasmin Haskell is a Chief Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions: Europe 1100-1800, at University of Western Australia. Her research project on Jesuit emotions explores the theory, experience and performance of emotion in the Early Modern Society … Continue reading
It’s been five years since the launch of the government’s flagship mental health programme, Improving Access for Psychological Therapies (IAPT). IAPT is the biggest expansion of mental health services anywhere in the world, ever. It has already trained 4,000 new … Continue reading
Dr Thomas Dixon is Director of the Centre for the History of the Emotions at Queen Mary, University of London. Today is the first Valentine’s Day since the House of Commons voted to legalize gay marriage in the UK. An … Continue reading
I’d like to examine the latest attempt to teach young people how to flourish in schools, via a randomised controlled trial of a new, evidence-based curriculum for Personal and Social Health Education (PSHE), which is being launched in 30 English … Continue reading
By Yasmin Haskell (Chief Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions: Europe 1100-1800 at University of Western Australia) This post was first published on The Conversation in their Medical Histories series, recounting curious stories from the history of medicine. … Continue reading